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Anything Can Grow With Subsidies

With mandated wind and solar power in Germany the costs have risen to where it is estimated that 800,000 households can no longer afford electricity. Try to tell the average German that outcome is "fictional."

March 11, 2014 4:04 p.m. ET

American Council on Renewable Energy President Michael Brower boasts (Letters, Feb. 22) that there has been a 309% growth in wind-power generation and a "stunning 607% rise in solar-electricity generation since 2007." What he doesn't acknowledge is that those two sources still account for less than 3% of the total energy generated in the U.S. Count that as a good thing. With mandated wind and solar power accounting for a good bit of the electricity generated in Germany, the costs have risen to where it is estimated that 800,000 households can no longer afford electricity. Try to tell the average German that...